1 jan 2003 ano - Latif's Archive gets stolen/lost/destroyed

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In 2003, when Baghdad fell, more than half a million historic photos in the archives of the culture ministry were stolen by looters. By then al-Ani had relocated part of his own archives to Beirut, but thousands of his photos were lost. Many of his pictures show an almost unimaginably glamorous Iraq. In one, fashionably dressed women examine strings of pearls in a department store case. In another, an English film crew poses in Babylon. Everything looked new, everything looked modern. “The days of plenty,” al-Ani calls them.

Today things have changed and there has been a surge of scholarly work based on ethnographic and qualitative research in Iraq and on research in the archives that were seized by US forces after the invasion of Iraq in 2003, which are now housed at Stanford’s Hoover Institution and at the National Defense University.
< https://meis.gmu.edu/articles/12499

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